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Default Amazon steals Microsoft's Director of Game Platform Strategy for some reason

Amazon's gaming related job postings are starting to bear exotic fruit having just nabbed Microsoft's Director of Game Platform Strategy, Andre Vrignaud. Vrignaud started with Microsoft in 2002 as Director of Xbox Live Platform Strategy and more recently helped manage Microsoft's overall gaming platform strategy with a hand in figuring out how to roll out Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7. Obviously, this leads to speculation that Amazon is looking to expand further into digital games as it's already done with music, video, and digital books. And with Amazon working on non-Kindle hardware with ambitions for dual-screen readers, well, we'd say the question isn't what, but when?Amazon steals Microsoft's Director of Game Platform Strategy for some reason originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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